Under the covers of SOPS for codifying secrets

SOPS (Secrets OPerationS) is a command line tool that encrypts and decrypts files in a way that allows you to codify CI/CD and dev processes that require secrets. In an encrypted form, secrets can be stored in a Git repository, with appropriate access control, in the knowledge that it is hard to decrypt the secrets without the authorisation to decrypt. Codifying of secrets and SOPS tooling, helps make rotation of secrets easier, and hence encourages us to become better at timely rotations, in turn de-risking exposure of historical secrets.